Linux System Administration

Troubleshooting Practicum

Day 1

Instructions: You have 60 minutes to complete this portion of the exam. You are not allowed to use any resources except for the man pages. Please remain as quiet as possible. If you have ANY questions, then you are to direct them to me.

Fix as many of these problems as you can. In order to be correct, they all must be fixed when the machine is rebooted. When time is called, you must immediately stop working and reboot your machine.

Set the root password to TRANSY2005.

Fix the networking issues. For some reason, you are not able to access www.transy.edu.

X-Windows is broken. You need to fix your X-windows configuration.

For some reason, when you type in any commands such as ls, df, or any other basic command, your get an error message stating that the command is not found. Fix your system so that these commands are recognized.

SSH is not working. Determine why and fix it. To test the service, SSH into the podium machine and then SSH back into your machine.

One of your regular partitions is not mounting correctly. Correct this issue.

Linux System Administration

System Administration Practicum

Day 1

Instructions: You have 60 minutes to complete this portion of the exam. You are not allowed to use any resources except for the man pages. Please remain as quiet as possible. If you have ANY questions, then you are to direct them to me.

You are to install Linux on your workstation using the following parameters. Note that you are not to destroy the partition containing windows.

Use the following partition scheme:

/usr 4GB

/home 1GB

/var 500 MB

/ 1GB

Add a good collection of applications to your system. Consider this from the regular user and the system administrator point of view. Make sure you have packages such as SSH, NFS, etc.

Set the workstation to start in run level 3, set Windows to be the default OS, and have a timeout of 15 seconds in the bootloader.

Set the swap space to be twice as large as the RAM.

Set the root password to be aqswde.

When you re-boot for the first time, make a regular user named mlevan. Give this user the password mlevan2005.

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